Nouakchott's criminal court Tuesday rendered its judgment on the case involving 14 people accused of plotting the attack, which left 15 Mauritanian soldiers dead and many more injured at the Lemgheity military base in 2005.
Three of the accused received jail sentences of between three and five years, two others were ordered to serve a two-year suspended sentence, while the remaining nine were simply acquitted.
Initially facing a death penalty, Tahar Ould Biye was finally sentenced to a five-year jail term by the court while Tiyib Ould Salek and Ely Cheikh Ould Ahmed Vall were ordered to serve three years in prison each.
According to defense lawyer Mohamed Ould Ahmed Miske, the lightness of the sentences demonstrated the sheer lack of credible evidence implicating his clients in the attack.
Source: Xinhua
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